JOQ asserts that after the publication of the earlier report, the case did not remain isolated. The editorial staff received dozens of other complaints from various citizens, who report similar situations and express uncertainty about what is happening in different areas.

Only after these reactions and repeated calls to institutions, including the Director of the Police, Skënder Hita, has an official reaction come from the State Police.

Albanians concerned over MEK approaching their children

In the press release, the police have clarified that these are women who belong to a group known as the Iranian Mujahedeen [Mujahedin-e Khalq/ MEK], who are located in the Manëz area, and that, according to the authorities, they do not pose a danger or bad intentions towards the children.

However, despite this “reassuring” clarification, it seems that some citizens remain skeptical. Complaints and reports continue to arrive, showing that concerns have not been completely eliminated and that trust in official statements remains fragile. The situation once again raises the need for greater transparency and clear communication from institutions, in order to avoid misunderstandings and restore a sense of security among citizens.

JOQ Albania, Editorial Staff

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The most recent defector of the MEK whose house was inspected by the Police on July 14, published new revelations confirming the fact that was noted in the attorney general’s inspection order. Mostafa (Milad) Beheshti‘s testimony was like an evidence to verify what the inspection order stated. “During the past months, an Afghan smuggler with a nickname (Meysam) sent dozens of people across the Albanian border to Greece by receiving 1,200 Euros from each person, and by making fake IDs and documents of foreigners and Greek citizens,” Mostafa writes on his Facebook.

Mostafa Beheshti

Mostafa clarifies the part of MEK agents in smuggling their defectors out of Albania. “This was done as a team and under the control of one of the Mojahedin supporters in Germany,” he writes. “The smuggler (Meysam) was in contact with a person determined by the Mujahideen through virtual number and WhatsApp, and no one else had the right to have the number of this smuggler.”

Mostafa Beheshti who used to visit the MEK commanders to receive a small monthly payment before announcing his complete defection a few weeks ago, states the names of two MEK commanders who were in direct contact with the Afghan smuggler to monitor the defector even after his defection from the Cult of Rajavi. “Human trafficking was carried out in groups of 3 people, and Javad Khorasan and Abdullah Hosseini were in direct contact with the groups’ guides along the way.”

Human smuggling by the MEK has been in the lime light from time to time. On December 2021, it was reported that an MEK-linked team have been arrested for drug smuggling, human trafficking, and money laundering in Albania. Press TV cited from Exit News, the Albanian news agency that published an official document giving details of serious offenses involving MEK members: “According to the document, bearing the signature and stamp of the Director of the Criminal Police Department in the State Police, two members of the MKO, along with Albanian and Greek accomplices, have been arrested for direct involvement in human trafficking.”

The MEK’s background indicates that it has always been professionally active in human trafficking. According to RAND report a large number of the MEK’s rank and file had been smuggled to Iraq when it was located in Camp Ashraf, 60 kilometers from Baghdad. The report published in 2009 reads:

“Several factors suggest that repatriation to Iran is appropriate for the MeK rank and file. First, a significant, indeterminate portion of the MeK rank and file in Iraq were at Camp Ashraf only because of the MeK’s fraudulent recruiting practices. For example, Iranians taken prisoner by Saddam’s forces during the Iran-Iraq War were promised repatriation to Iran if they transferred from Iraqi prison camps to MeK facilities. Iranian expatriates in third countries were told that they would be granted asylum in European countries. They were also given offers of employment as translators, along with promises of land and spouses. Some Iranians were enticed to MeK camps by offers of free visits with family members. Others who paid to be smuggled out of Iran found themselves trafficked to MeK camps rather than to their intended destinations. Although the exact figure is not known, it is estimated that approximately 70 percent of MeK members now in Iraq joined the group after its relocation there and subsequent decline in popularity. Many of them were victims of these fraudulent recruiting practices.”

What the RAND report asserts, have been frequently appeared in the testimonies of former members who recounted how they got involved with the MEK. The testimonies of victims of the Cult of Rajavi indicate the dimensions of Massoud Rajavi’s atrocity against his rank and file in his cult of personality. “These victims as well as the MeK’s true volunteers (most of whom joined prior to the MeK’s exile from Iran) have been trapped in a cult environment,” according to the RAND report. “The MeK leadership has confiscated their identity documents, threatened them with persecution in Iran and prosecution for illegal immigration in Iraq, and prevented those who wished to do so from returning to their home country. Therefore, humanitarian considerations regarding the MeK must not assume that the wishes of the MeK’s leadership are the same as those of the rank and file, particularly those who were deceived and then trapped at MeK camps.”

Nevertheless, the recent revelation that was made in the Albanian’s inspection order and was confirmed and clarified by Mostafa Beheshti, shows that people who defect the MEK are not free from the cult’s control system which is now under the ruling of Maryam Rajavi. Leaders of the Cult of Rajavi make their maximum effort to prevent defectors from deradicalization by smuggling them across Albanian border and delivering them to their agents in other European countries. By its supportive activities for former members of the group, the Association for the Support of the Iranians Living in Albania (ASILA) is actually obstructing the MEK’s efforts. Indeed, as defectors come to ASILA office immediately after their escape from Camp Ashraf 3, they eventually break all of the links that attach them to the Cult of Rajavi.

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In the following video Dr. Olsi Jazexhi and Gjergji Thanasi analyse the latest scandal of the Mujahedin Khalq/ the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran in Albania. Different Albanian medias have reported that on January 17, 2020 the Albanian State Police has sent a police report to the United States Embassy in Tirana where they reveal to the Americans the level of crime, drug smuggling and human trafficking that the Mujahedin Khalq (PMOI/MEK) are doing from Albania into Europe. This report was later claimed to be fake by the Albanian State Police. However, many Albanian media have reported and report the level of crime within the Mujahedin Khalq camp. Top Mujahedin Khalq commanders: Narges Abrishamchi and Hassan Nayeb-Agha have been arrested for drug smuggling. Mohammad Sadat Darbandi was involved in stealing money from a pharmacy in Kamez. On the other hand the Mujahedin Khalq are involved in a large scale process of human trafficking to Europe.

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However, those Albanian prosecutors who open criminal cases against the mojahedeens lose their jobs. Those who obey to Mujahedin Khalq dictates keep their jobs. Journalists are blackmailed not to report the Mujahedin Khalq crime. On the other hand retired US colonels like Wesley N. Martin claim that they provide security to the Mujahedin Khalq in cooperation with the US Embassy in Tirana.

In the following discussion Olsi and Gjergji try to solve the puzzle: Who is defending the Mujahedin Khalq crime in Albania? The government of Edi Rama or the US Embassy?

Useful links:

• Iranian Exiles in Albania Arrested for Drug Trafficking and Human Smuggling – Exit – Explaining Albania
• Another MEK Member Involved in Criminal Activity in Albania

Olsi Jazexhi and Gjergji Thanasi YouTube page

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Olsi Jazexhi, citing Albanian media reports, said in a tweet on Thursday that some MKO operatives, headed by the terrorist group’s leader, Maryam Rajavi, and based in a camp near the capital, Tirana, have attempted to traffic over 400 of the group’s own members to France.

Olsi Jazexhi

Jazexhi added that a number of the terrorist cult’s members have been detained for trafficking people from the Middle East to Europe, who were probably Daesh members.

“Good news for Iran, bad news for #FreeIran, #MaryamRajavi terrorists in #Albania. Albanian police have alerted @USEmbassyTirana that the mojaheeden have trafficked 400 #mojaheden to #France and probably members of DAESH to Europe,” the Albanian journalist wrote.

Good news for Iran, bad news for #FreeIran, #MaryamRajavi terrorists in #Albania. Albanian police have alerted @USEmbassyTirana that the mojaheeden have trafficked 400 #mojaheden to #France and probably members of DAESH to Europe.https://t.co/HDpcXSYgB5
— Olsi Jazexhi (@OlsiJ) February 17, 2022

Jazexhi went on to say that some senior MKO members have been also arrested while trying to traffic drugs to Italy, with police having prosecuted another member over theft charges.

“Sister in law of #MaryamRajavi – sister of @Abrichamtchi head of #NCR committee against terrorism – Narges Abrichamtchi has been arrested trafficking drugs to #Italy. US, #Israel & Saudis should reign down their terrorists in #Albania! France be careful! 400 jihadis are in Paris,” Jazexhi added.

Sister in law of #MaryamRajavi – sister of @Abrichamtchi head of #NCR committee against terrorism – Narges Abrichamtchi has been arrested trafficking drugs to #Italy. US, #Israel & Saudis should reign down their terrorists in #Albania! France be careful! 400 jihadis are in Paris.
— Olsi Jazexhi (@OlsiJ) February 17, 2022

In another string of tweets later on Thursday, the journalist said in one instance, the MKO cult “forced Gazeta Shqiptarja to take offline its article” about their drug and human trafficking arrests in Albania.

MKO, #MaryamRajavi gang has just forced Gazeta Shqiptarja to take offline its article about mojaheden drug & human trafficking arrests in #Albania. My sources tell me that MKO has paid or is promising to pay 50,000 EURO for the removal of the police report. Attaching originals pic.twitter.com/tfjnJ0MAlY
— Olsi Jazexhi (@OlsiJ) February 17, 2022

Olsi noted that he has an official document from the office of Tirana Prosecutor, which proves that one of the notorious MKO commanders, called Mohammad Sadat Darbandi, has been arrested for robbing a pharmacy in Tirana.

And here is the official document from the office of Tirana Prosecutor where the notorious MKO commander Mohammad Sadat Darbandi has been arrested for robbing a pharmacy in Tirana. I have the full original indictment in PDF. pic.twitter.com/iXiPy4Uj2x
— Olsi Jazexhi (@OlsiJ) February 17, 2022

The journalist then said that Albanian prosecutors have already filed 100 criminal cases against the MKO on charges of major drug smuggling operations and connection to #Ndrangheta.

Albanian media are exposing #MaryamRajavi, #FreeIran mafia. Albanian prosecutors have issued 100 criminal cases against MKO. The mojaheden are accused of major drug smuggling operations and connection to #Ndrangheta. US embassy is blackmailing the police.https://t.co/CUU7yKKWI2
— Olsi Jazexhi (@OlsiJ) February 17, 2022

Olsi noted that there are also many reports that reveal “the connections of #MaryamRajavi, #FreeIran mafia with Italian mafia.”

He added that Albanian opposition newspapers are blaming the US embassy in Tirana for providing protection for the MKO criminal cult.

There is an explosion of news about the connections of #MaryamRajavi, #FreeIran mafia with Italian mafia. Albanian opposition newspapers are blaming the @USEmbassyTirana for providing protection for the mojaheden criminal syndicate. This is huge!https://t.co/ss6DZtL7ps
— Olsi Jazexhi (@OlsiJ) February 17, 2022

According to an official document seen by Albania Newspaper Exit in December last year, two members of the MKO, along with Albanian and Greek accomplices, were apprehended for direct involvement in human trafficking.

The documents said the criminal activities happened between 2019 and 2021.

An official source, who requested to remain anonymous, told Exit that the documents claim that information on these crimes has been handed over to the US Embassy in Tirana, and that the Albanian paper has contacted the mission for comments but no formal response has been given.

A political analyst says the West uses terrorist groups such as the anti-Iran MKO to advance its destructive agendas.

After it was founded more than 50 years ago, the MKO launched a campaign of bombings and assassinations in Iran. Out of the nearly 17,000 Iranians killed in terrorist attacks over the past four decades, about 12,000 have fallen victim to the group’s acts of terror.

The ill-famed terror group is currently based in Albania, where it enjoys freedom of activity after being delisted by the European Union and the United States in 2009 and 2012 respectively.

Regardless of its disrepute around the world, the MKO has in recent years held numerous big events, attended by senior American, Israeli and Saudi officials, including former US Senator John McCain, former mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani, former US national security advisor John Bolton, former US Senator Joe Lieberman, and former director of Saudi Arabia’s intelligence agency Turki bin Faisal Al Saud.

Ericsson says employees may have bribed Daesh in Iraq

The new revelation comes after previous reports indicated that in addition to the MKO, some major Western companies have been also involved in illegal activities pertaining to other terrorist groups, which have been widely condemned by the international community for their crimes, including the Daesh terrorist group.

In one such case, Sweden’s Ericsson has been accused of graft in Iraq when Daesh was active in the Arab country.

The chief executive of Swedish telecoms giant Ericsson said on Wednesday that some of its employees in Iraq may have bribed Daesh members to gain access to certain roads in the country.

“What we see is that people have paid for road transport through areas controlled by terrorist organizations, including ISIS (Daesh),” Borje Ekholm told Swedish financial daily Dagens Industri.

“With the means we have, we haven’t been able to determine the final recipients of these payments,” he added.

Ekholm made the comments hours after the Swedish company released a statement late on Tuesday admitting “serious breaches of compliance rules and the company’s code of business ethics” regarding Ericsson employees, vendors and suppliers in Iraq between 2011 and 2019.

The statement said an internal investigation conducted in 2019 had revealed “evidence of corruption-related misconduct.”

Several employees left the company as a result of the probe, “and multiple other disciplinary and other remedial actions were taken,” Ericsson added in the statement.

The company said it had chosen to disclose details of the now two-year-old investigation due to “detailed media inquiries from Swedish and international news outlets.”

Ericsson’s share price tumbled by more than 12 percent in opening trade on Wednesday on the Stockholm stock exchange after the news.

Albanian police later rejected the allegations.

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During the past two months, there have been two reports on the MEK’s involvement in human trafficking in Albania and Greece. On December 5th, 2021, Alice Taylor of the Exit reported on the arrest of two commanders of the MEK, Narges Azdanloo and Hassan Nayeb Agha by the Albanian police. Gjergji Thanasi of Gazeta Impakt wrote of the group’s background of smuggling two men in Greece, on January 30th, 2022. Referring to the violent background of the MEK, Thanasi warned the Albanian security services to verify the case of these two people in the MEK’s camp in Manza, north of Tirana.

Trafficking is a tactic of warfare to intimidate populations and reduce resistance just as enslavement and rape. Terrorist groups appear to grow human capital, tactical adaptability and ideological reinforcement for their organizations by employing trafficking acts and means to exploit vulnerable adults and children for a variety of purposes, including sexual exploitation, forced labor and slavery, and even war. The recent testimonies published by former child soldiers of the MEK prove that leaders of the group, Massoud and Maryam Rajavi have committed all of these crimes against their own members, just as the ISIS did against their female and child recruits and the Yazidi women.

Although the case of MEK’s human traffickers and their victims have hardly ever investigated in the media and scholar communities –due to the group’s propaganda or Western political interests—the threat of the residence of two thousand radicalized members of the MEK in a European country should not be neglected.
The important argument here is that victims of trafficking by terrorist groups are too often being punished instead of protected. States fail to identify and protect victims, often because of their alleged association with terrorist groups and their illegal immigration. This makes the victims to resort to their predator again for the alleged support. This has frequently happened to members and ex-members of the MEK.

The Albanian authorities and the Human rights bodies should take into consideration that the majority of the MEK’s rank and file are victims of the group’s cult-like oppressive system. They have been radicalized under Rajavi’s cult of Personality. They have been terrified of the outside world by the group’s propaganda. Thus, the Albanian state must support them to get deradicalized in order to join the life outside the MEK’s camp.

The second step is to protect the defectors of the MEK to begin their new life in the free world. The Association for the Support of the Iranians Living in Albania (ASILA) seems to be ready to accomplish the second step. However, the first step is certainly possible if the Albanian authorities take proper action to do their national and humanitarian responsibility to aid residents of Camp Ashaf 3 release from the bars of the cult of Rajavi.

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The intervention of American diplomats in Tirana before the Albanian judiciary to close this affair of the MEK with drugs and trafficking in human beings, apparently served the MEK as an incentive to continue the profitable trafficking of human beings. For more, you can consult the public statement of the prominent analyst Andi Bushati.

I learned from my fellow Greek journalists that the Attica Prefecture police as well as EKAM (Greek special anti-terror police) were very alarmed when they learned from operational sources that the former terrorist organization MEK based in a camp near Durrës trafficked two members of the organization from Albania to Greece years ago.

It is about MEHDI MAZLOOMI and BAHMAN RAHIMI. The Greeks, given the proverb that the leopard cannot change the fur stamps (the wolf changes the hair, but does not forget the habit) fear the participation of these two mujahideen in terrorist acts in the territory of the Hellenic Republic or the use of this territory to undertake terrorist acts in other EU countries or in allied countries of Greece (NATO member countries).

According to Greek journalists, these 2 members of a former terrorist organization are trying to contact structured Afghan criminal gangs in Athens to obtain forged European identification documents. Greek colleagues had only one photo of many years ago of Mehdi Mazloomi, with his mother. This photo is attached to my post for illustration.

Mehdi Mazlumi and his mother

The continuation of trafficking by MEK members and commanders in Albania opens additional troubles for my Homeland and creates problems with the EU and NATO allies. As a journalist, but also as an Albanian patriot, I call on the director of the State Police, Mr. Gledis Nano (former director of anti-terrorism), to urgently verify, whether the above two persons are still in Camp Ashraf in Manez, or have cracked the thorn and Greek journalists are right, who give the alarm for trafficking in human beings (active members of a former terrorist organizations)?

Such verification is not difficult at all, because during the dictatorship even the chickens of agricultural cooperatives had inventory. I believe that the Albanian police has an exact “inventory” of how many and who are the MEKs housed in Ashraf 3, so it is easy to find out if the two above-mentioned are still in Camp Ashraf 3 or ……

As an American philanthropist, I publicly ask DCM Demian Smith at the US Embassy in Tirana, to exercise all his influence with the good intention, that the Rajavi Cult stop any openly illegal activity that takes place in the territory of the Republic of Albania.

I am absolutely sure that such an action by DCM Smith would serve to strengthen the excellent Albanian-American relations. After all, the English proverb also applies to us Albanians: “A friend in need is a friend indeed”.

Now Albania really needs the Rajavi Cult to put an end to all the evil activities that it develops in the Albanian land, abusing the generosity and hospitality of the Albanians !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gazeta Impakt – GJERGJI THANASI

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Recently it has been reported that MEK members are helping Albanian police identify Iranians among migrants arriving in the country. On the surface, this might appear a benign form of help. But deeper inspection reveals a sinister treachery.

Working with the police in itself throws up questions. Migrants seeking asylum from repressive countries have no need or benefit in lying about their origins. What role do the MEK personnel play in seeking out fraudsters? Who lies about their origins? Do the police employ the MEK members in some official capacity or are they simply there as ‘volunteers’? In this scenario, do the police ‘employ’ other ethnicities to identify their own? Once such individuals are identified, what purpose does this serve? Are the MEK personnel used as translators? Are the individuals informed that these are members of MEK? These questions should in themselves raise alarm bells about the involvement of this unethical, criminal group in a highly sensitive arena involving extremely vulnerable asylum seekers.

However, there is growing evidence that MEK are able to exploit this scenario for recruitment purposes. They will tell the migrant in Farsi that they will almost certainly be deported back to Iran unless they accept help from them. That help will be framed as facilitating their forward travel to Germany or France or the UK, etc, and that only they can prevent deportation. In this case, the target will need to stay in Camp Ashraf 3 to ensure their safety until travel arrangements can be made. In reality, no such arrangements will be made and these duped victims will be trapped inside Camp Ashraf 3 with no recourse to help or saviour.

This is exactly how MEK has behaved in the past. During the Iran Iraq war 1880-88, the MEK would visit Iranian Prisoners of War in Iraqi camps. They would promise to remove them from the appalling conditions of the camps where death, violence, torture and malnutrition were a daily risk. The PoW would be taken to Camp Ashraf and from there, the MEK would promise to facilitate their return to Iran, often via Europe. Of course, that never happened, and tens of these PoWs are still trapped in the MEK camp in Albania after three decades.

Later, as Iranians fled from the post-war revolutionary conditions imposed on them in Iran, including financial hardship, the MEK set up a recruitment department in Turkey to lure would be victims with similar deceptive promises of help. All the migrants needed to do, they were told, was come to Iraq for a while until arrangements could be made to transfer them to Europe of North America. Again, this was a deceptive trap, and these individuals were never freed from either Iraq or now Albania unless they made their own escape.

The MEK needs to recruit now in particular. From the 3800 members detained in Iraq by the US army in 2003, only around 1600 or fewer remain in Albania. The attrition of members has come about from various causes. Most are defections – tens of hundreds of people who simply could continue as members of a cult that daily destroys them and so fled the clutches of MEK. Some have died – from old age, illness, murder and suicide and of course, COVID-19. Of those who remain, the great majority are old, sick or disabled – from war and disease and neglect.

Whatever the reason, the number of members has diminished and deteriorated so much that the MEK’s sponsors and masters are beginning to find them a burden rather than an asset. Certainly, even slaves need feeding, housing and clothing if they are to perform valuable tasks. The return for this contract is barely worth it. Rajavi sells her organisation’s members for various tasks – to organise and participate in glitzy propaganda rallies, to act as click farm operatives and perhaps most sinister, to be the hiding place for several dangerous persons skilled in terrorism and prepared for suicide missions. As long as these services are in demand, Rajavi has a need for more younger healthier members. But there is a fine balance as to how necessary and cost effective this particular group is in the west’s calculations.

Whether or not the anti-Iran coalition continues to fund and exploit the MEK in its current manifestation – a slave camp in Albania – the authorities there should consider the national interests of Albania now and what its presence there means to the future of the country. There are, of course, multiple steps that can be taken toward dismantling the group. Certainly, this should start with preventing further recruitment into the camp and into slavery.

By Massoud and Anne Khodabandeh,

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All this in the service of the fight against human trafficking. Unfortunately, in the last 3-4 years, a new actor has entered the field of this type of trafficking: the former terrorist organization MEK (the People’s Mojahedin of Iran). Individually, in my writing, I have addressed some cases (by name and surname) of the human trafficking committed by this former terrorist organization. Unfortunately, an almost total black out by the Albanian media of these trafficking cases has encouraged this malicious activity by the Mojahedin who are located as uninvited guests in Camp Ashraf 3 in Manez.

In the only case when Albanian police arrested two senior commanders of the MEK for involvement in drug trafficking and human trafficking, American diplomats strongly intervened with the Albanian prosecution to close this story down so that …… Such an intervention by our allies amongst the best Albanian law enforcement agencies, emboldened the former MEK terrorists to continue to trafficking Iranians and not only from Albania to EU countries, also to England and neutral countries such as Finland or Sweden.

The case of Farid Shahkarami

Until April 2021, the Iranian Farid Shahkarami (with identification number / personal number: L623030041) was employed in Tirana in the Company “Market Info sh.pk” with the address: Rruga Reshit Petrela, TIRANA Train Station. According to secret personal data which was leaked to the Albanian media a few days ago, Faridi worked in this company as a computer operator and was paid 2.72700 ALL per month.

Now it turns out, Farid Shahkarami is no longer in Albania. From an exchange of information with my Austrian colleagues it turns out that this Farid is in Vienna, where he is living illegally. I honestly do not know why Austrian journalists are so extremely interested in learning as much detail as possible about an Iranian computer specialist and former terrorist, who lives illegally in Vienna! Farid Shahkarian came to Albania together with several thousand members of the former MEK terrorist organization. The agreement governing the arrival of these Iranians in Albania is kept secret, but our NATO allies are now seeing the problem with these Iranians in the MEK is as the perpetrators of several criminal offenses, such as human trafficking, international drug trafficking, etc. As an Albanian journalist and patriot, I hope that the American diplomats in Tirana will help the Albanian law enforcement bodies keep the criminal activity of these Iranian Mojahedin living in Albania under control and on a tight leash.

Gjergji Thanasi

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Abdolmehdi Baymani; victim of the MEK

When I asked him about the reason of his coming to Ashraf, he told, “being jobless and the dream of living in Europe persuaded me to accept the suggestion made by one of my friends.”
“He introduced me a man whose job was human trafficking in the Gulf countries.” Mehdi said. “First, he was supposed to take me to Kuwait but after some time he said that the plan has been changed and I should go to Iraq! As I heard the word Iraq, I got surprised because we were at war with Iraq for several years. I thought that Iraq would not have a good relationship with Iranians and would not be safe for us. I was obsessed with the border line which was still full of undiscovered mines. However, the persistence of the man convinced me to go. I thought that it was my last chance for immigrating to Europe. I got the phone numbers of my close friends to call them immediately after I arrived in Europe.”

I felt pity for Mehdi. He was so naïve and honest. After the dinner, I said goodbye to Mehdi and his friends and I did not see him anymore. A year later, in 2000, the group announced that Mehdi had been killed in the Iran-Iraq border while he was returning from Iran to Iraq. I was shocked. I wondered what he was doing in the border line. I never thought that he would be sent for cross border operations because his eyes were awfully weak. He had serious vision problems at night. The next day, the MEK published an announcement to declare that Abdolmehdi Baymani had been sent to Iran to launch an operation.

The MEK commanders had not provided him with a safe house in Iran. They had forced him to use his family and their home to cover the operation and this way his family had been faced with security issues.
Abdolmehdi Baymani was killed at the age of 23 while he was a young man who just loved to live in a European country. He fell in the trap of the Rajavi’s terrorist cult. He was actually killed for Rajavi’s ambitions. He took his dream of living in Europe to the grave.
After the death of Mehdi, the inhuman Cult of Rajavi launched a propaganda to show off Mehdi as a hero who was in love with Maryam and Massoud Rajavi but the rank and file of the group regrated and felt sympathy for Mehdi’s heartbreaking fate.

Ali Ekrami, former member of the MEK

also read:
In Memory of victims of the MEK – Ahmad Tavakol
In Memory of victims of the MEK – Bahman Atiqi
In Memory of victims of the MEK – Mehran Gholami

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Mehdi Sarayee

The MEK commanders repeated the similar procedure to deceive Mehdi and it worked again although Ahmad had tried to warn his mother by implicitly telling her not to let Mehdi join them. Ahmad was under the supervision by his commanders so he could not talk to his family on the phone, openly. Mehdi was the last brother to join the MEK in Camp Ashraf. He has been given a nickname by the group commanders. He is called Pooya, in the group.
After the American invasion to Iraq, in 2003, the MEK was disarmed and the US army took the control of Camp Ashraf. A temporary camp was built by the US army for those who were willing to leave the group. Eventually, Jamshid and Ahmad left the group and then returned to Iran but they Mehdi was kept under the manipulative system of the Cult of Rajavi.

Mehdi Sarayee’s late father

The Sarayees are still looking forward for the day that Mehdi call them and talk to them freely. The parents of Mehdi and their older brother Ali, took various actions in order to call on the international bodies to aid the release of Mehdi. Unfortunately, their mother and father both died before they would be able to call or see Mehdi.

Jamshid Sarayee

Jamshid and Ahmad live a normal life in their hometown Gorgan, in North of Iran. They are married and have children. Occasionally, Jamshid sends video messages and open letters to his beloved brother who is in the MEK cult and has no access to the outside world. “Dear Mehdi, our father just passed away while he was looking forward to see you,” Jamshid says in his recent video message addressing Mehdi. “We all wait for you. Here, in Iran, I have had a normal life since I left the MEK. Come on! Get back soon! we are waiting for you.”

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